Week 16 Hazelnut Mousse Torte

This is more of a demo day than a normal bake till you drop day! 

Our trainer showed us how to make a Linzer Torte. It is an Austrian torte and it is named after the city of Linz. Linzer Torte is apparently the oldest-known recipe in the world, dating back to 1653. It is a crumbly pastry made of flour, butter, eggs, cinnamon , lemon juice and ground nuts and is filled with redcurrant jam. Then covered with a lattice dough strips. The jam that we had wasn't a good one and it was very sweet. I only ate a tiny piece.

Linzer Torte

Pavlovas, something Australians love. It is very sweet obviously because it is made of egg white and a lot of sugar. Unfortunately our pavlovas cracked and they didn't look too nice. But it was so much fun making them. The inside was still soft like marshmallow, like how it is suppose to be. 

Alien look-a-like Pavlovas

Did I mention that our trainer is great with chocolate work and sugar work? well she is and she is so generous with her knowledge. We are so lucky to have her as our trainer for this term but the sad news is she is leaving at the end of the term. Not sure who we will get next. It won't be easy to fill her shoes.

This is a simple sugar work that we got to make to decorate the pavlovas and the torte. Simple and beautiful. 

My sugar work.

Now this is how our trainer dished up the pavlova. A dessert that is colourful , beautiful and has the height. It is almost too beautiful to be eaten.

Trainer's beautifully decorated pavlova.

 Hazelnut mousse torte. This is a layered hazelnut sponge cake with chocolate mousse in between and then covered with hazelnut buttercream. Our torte didn't set in time for us to decorate it because we made a rather big one. So I had to wait till next week.

Trainer's example of how to decorate the torte.

Took the torte home and did my decoration at home. This is how I decorated our torte. No sugar work on mine and no more hazelnuts either so I sprinkled some chocolate chips instead. 

My decoration on the torte.

My teammate who lives really far didn't want to take the cake home because it will melt before she reaches home. Thanks for letting me have the cake.